[Ads-l] Antedating of "Pollster" (Corrected)

[Shapiro, Fred]

This word has previously been considered to be a quintessential Time-Magazine coinage.

pollster (OED 1939)

1936 Nebraska Beacon 2 Jan. 2/1 (Newspapers.com)

Always the results please the people who dig up the dough for the taking of the polls. ... The pollsters hoped that the people wanted to retire our senior Senator for good and all.

Fred Shapiro




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